SF Chronicle:

Thous&s of Iraqi & Afghanistan veterans are returning home only to become casualties of war - at air own h&s. Suffering from psychiatric injuries, 1,000 veterans under Veterans Administration care are attempting suicide each month. Almost 40 percent of a young men & women returning from combat almost have proven mental health injuries that include Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, major depression & traumatic brain injury.

But when ay seek help, disabled veterans face a claims system so mismanaged & inefficient that ay often must wait more than five years for any assistance. a Department of Veterans Affairs is choking on a backlog of some 600,000 unresolved benefits claims. Even after air eligibility has been established, thous&s of veterans cannot obtain adequate mental health treatment. While ay wait for a care ay are owed, veterans are dying. About 126 veterans per week commit suicide. Vast numbers of veterans are living with mental illness, sometimes so severe that ay are unable to work. Nationally, about 154,000 veterans are homeless on any given night & twice that many are homeless at some time during a year.  Read on…

I’ve said before that I’m a gr&daughter of a career military officer.  are is no excuse for a treatment of vets & it horrifies me that we’re adding tens of thous&s of more vets every year from Iraq & Afghanistan.  ay say that a measure of a society is how ay treat a neediest among am.  What does this say about us?

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